By the same Author. 

 Lately published, PART I. in 8vo. price 



A MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY, 



DESCRIPTIVE AND THEORETICAL 



' OP DR. ODLING'S Manual of Chemistry ' 

 we are glad to speak with the greatest) 

 praise.' MEDICAL TIMES and GAZETTE. 



' THIS is an elaborate introduction to pure 

 chemistry, and may be regarded as an ex- 

 ponent of the views of the subject now taken 

 by the most eminent men of science. The Author 

 states that it was undertaken more especially at 

 the request of Prof. Brodie, who wished to have 

 for the use of his class at Oxford a chemical text- 

 book arranged in accordance with his own 



method of teaching Two or at most three 



sections of the extent of the present PART will 

 complete the work, which will doubtless be found 

 a very important and valuable addition to the 

 elementary works used by advanced students.' 

 GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



'WE may congratulate the chemists of 

 this country that there is amongst them a 

 class of philosophical enquirers who will not 

 confine their teachings to the limited demands 

 of the medical student, but are determined to 

 vindicate for themselves a name amongtt the 

 philosophers of Europe. In such a class we have 

 no hesitation in placing the Author of the present 

 manual; and whether he succeeds or not in 

 obtaining for his work the position of a text-book 

 in our medical and technological schools, there 

 can be no question with regard to the scientific 

 ability and philosophical insight which he has 

 brought to bear on this first attempt to introduce 

 the new system of chemistry to the scientific 

 schools and class-rooms of this country.' 



ATHENAOM. 



' THE appearance of this, the first part of 

 Dr. Odling's work, marks an epoch in the 

 history of chemistry in this country. No 

 one can fail to observe, even on merely glancing 

 at the book, the great difference between che- 

 mistry as it was a few years ago, and chemistry 

 as it is now unfolded. We can hardly say that 

 there is here expressed the science as it is, so 

 large a section of chemists having as yet with- 

 held their subscription to the new laws, but we 

 unhesitatingly assert that it is the exponent of 



chemistry as it will be It requires only a 



study of Dr. Odling's work to be convinced of 

 the infinite superiority of this system over the 

 old, in the expression of series, of correlations, 

 and of reactions . . . Dr. Odling scarcely touches' 

 [in PART!.] 'upon chemical physics, and very 

 briefly adverts to the technological applications 

 of chemistry. His work is most valuable, when 

 considered as affording to a generation of che- 

 mists yet to come an insight into that system 

 which will best express the marvellous relations 

 subsisting between chemical compounds.' 



LONDON MEDICAL REVIEW. 



' It is with considerable pleasure that we 

 draw attention to this work. During the 

 last ten years scientific chemistry has been 

 undergoing a great and radical change. 

 The illustrious Gerhardt may be considered 

 the founder of what is now known as the 

 unitary system of notation, but for a long 

 time his system was looked upon with 

 distrust by all but a few continental che- 

 mists. Gradually, however, it was seen in 

 England that this system much facilitated 

 the generalisation of chemical truths, and 

 its views are now adopted by most of the 

 leading English chemists. But whilst the 

 opinions and teachings of the professors of 

 this science have been slowly changing, the 

 literature of chemistry has, with but few 

 exceptions, remained stationary. It will, 

 therefore, be an inestimable boon to all 

 students or teachers of chemistry to know 

 that the first part of this long-expected 

 and important manual is at last published, 

 and leaves nothing to be desired in those 

 branches of chemical science upon which it 

 treats. It only extends as far as the non- 

 metallic elements, hydrogen, fluorine, 

 chlorine, bromine, iodine, oxygen, sulphur, 

 selenium, tellurium, nitrogen, phosphorus, 

 arsenic, antimony, and bismuth, and of their 

 combinations with one another : but the proper- 

 ties of the different bodies, and their theoretical 

 and practical relations one to another, are 

 described with greater fulness than is customary 

 in text-books. The arrangement is more than 

 ordinarily systematic, and the mutual relations 

 of the elements and of their analogous com- 

 pounds are largely dwelt upon, as are also the 

 mutual relations of the various heterologous 

 compounds of the same element. The compounds 

 of mineral and organic chemistry are not con- 

 sidered apart in separate sections ; moreover, 

 the doctrines of series, types, and substitutions, 

 are applied indiscriminately to both branches 

 of chemical science. This is an entirely novel 

 feature, and one which cannot fail to consider- 

 ably simplify the science to a young student. 

 An attentive perusal of this volume has con- 

 vinced us that it in every respect deserves the 

 high expectations which were formed of it. It 

 is one of the few standard works on the science 

 in the English language, and can deservedly 

 take its place in the library by the side of 

 Gmelin's Handbook.' LONDON REVIEW. 



In the press, PABT II. of 



DR. ODLING'S MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY. 



DESCRIPTIVE AND THEORETICAL 



This Part will include an account of Carbon, with its Methylic, Formic, and Cyanic 

 compounds ; also of Silicon, Boron, and the Monad, Dyad and Triad Metals, with their 

 principal Salts. 



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